Anyone know if I’m the near future layoffs will be affecting Oath (Yahoo/AOL)?
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Maybe everybody loses after all.
"Verizon is putting Oath bloatware like Go90 on its Galaxy S9 phones"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/2/17310950/verizon-galaxy-s9-oath-bloatware-phones
"Additionally, it seems that Oath’s apps will become Samsung’s “premiere content partner” for the Bixby Home feed, adding things like sports scores (from Yahoo Sports), news (from Newsroom), and stock information (from Yahoo Finance) into Bixby Home, too. Oh, and more ads.
These integrated ads and Bixby Home content will be coming to all Samsung S9 devices, not just Verizon ones, starting with the US with an eventual plan to roll them out globally. That means that even if you aren’t a Verizon customer and you use an S9, prepare to start seeing a lot more Verizon and Oath content in your future."
Pieces are being sold. Eventually VZ will dump Oath.
"Verizon Signs Deal to Place the Saddest, Most Pathetic Bloatware on Samsung Devices [Updated]"
https://gizmodo.com/verizon-signs-deal-to-place-the-saddest-most-pathetic-1825731212
"According to Reuters, the deal will load up Verizon Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ devices with a number of useless apps, including Yahoo Sports; Yahoo Finance; Go90, a mobile video service that you are almost certainly not using; and Oath Newsroom, a news curation app that surfaces headlines from across the web, but primarily from Yahoo News and HuffPost, both of which are owned by Verizon.
As part of the deal, Oath will become the “premiere content partner” for Bixby, Samsung’s first-party virtual assistant. If that doesn’t sound like enough stuff that you don’t want on your phone, Samsung and Oath will also allow advertisers to place “native ads”—ads disguised as actual content—smack dab in the middle of the news feed. The companies will split the revenue from the deal, pocketing some cash every time you accidentally tap an ad while scrolling.
“This gets ads one step closer to being direct to consumer,” Oath CEO Tim Armstrong told Reuters, apparently completely misunderstanding or simply not caring about what consumers want. “You can’t be more direct than being on the mobile phone home screen and app environment.”"
This is on phones that customers are already paying Verizon $930 and $799 to purchase from Verizon. No discount for running the sponsored bloatware, like Amazon gives you.
The big winners in this deal are all wireless companies, other than Verizon.
I hope so
I hope so